IULIA GHERGHEI

IULIA GHERGHEI

SLOW MOTION SPRING

Cherries, bowls of cherries

And this spring, cold and rainy

Brings nightmarish October dreams

Creepy in every way, this year will

Skip summer

We will have a full twelve months fall

Yeah, will fall soaring first

Over flooded lands and then

Bang will crack the asphalt

Cherries, bowls of cherries

Cherries from another spring

Dreams, warm dreams from a midnight summer

Fairies left without a prince

Ruins, rags and death

Spread as crumbles of this world

A SEA OF FOG

The fog is in my tea

My nostrils are tickled by its warm vapours

A sea of fog is slowly moving towards me

The birds are silent

My enemies, the pigeons have hidden

Somewhere safe

The pressure makes my bones sore

And I, the ship, creaking from every nail

Straighten my sail

And cut the wall of vapours with my sword

On deck the pirates, the slime pirates

Drunken and lazy

Dream of mermaids

And, I, the ship, timid and light

I choose the sky line to free this carcass from the pillow of fog

ARABESQUE

Another spring stirs the hormones

Rebels, the youngsters think they own the wind

As butterflies own the flower

Before they fly to other sky

Essences, little fairy businesses

Secretly, run your brain cells

Quite intriguing how the chemicals

Urge themselves into a smile and

Evidently, your stare welcomes a craving now

IULIA GHERGHEI

IULIA GHERGHEI, Romanian poet, writing in English, published her début book, "Prisoners of Cinema Paradiso" , at blurb.com in 2012. In 2014 she received the" Poet of the Year" title on Destiny Poets site,  run by Louis Kasatkin. In 2015 she won the Blackwater Poetry group contest with her poem " Lost in blue curtains". She was part of many anthologies, " The Significant Anthology" , edited by Ampat Koshy was published in 2015 is one of them.